"A group of negotiators from the Transylvania Company which included Daniel Boone obtained agreement from the Cherokees along the Tennessee River in 1775 to allow white settlement of the area. By 1780 a number of stations had been established by James Harrod, Daniel Boone and others to facilitate the migration into the territory from the eastern states."

[Kentucky County, VA was formed effective 31 Dec 1776 and abolished 30 Jun 1780; over the next dozen years other counties were formed, and Kentucky became the 15th state in 1792.]